Thayer School
THE THAYER SCHOOL embarked three weeks ago on a four-day trek to New York. Fifteen students, Dean Garran and I made up the party attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The program included student chapter and technical discussion meetings, the big smoker, and the annual dinner meeting of the Thayer Society of Engineers. Between meetings inspection trips were arranged to the Delaware River Aqueduct project through the courtesy of A. H. Ayres '07; to the Lincoln Tunnel, Queens Midtown Tunnel and a Long Island Railroad grade crossing elimination construction project through the courtesy of Mr. J. C. Evans, Chief Engineer of the Port of New York Authority; and to sewage treatment plants in Brooklyn and Queens and LaGuardia Airport through the courtesy of Mr. Arthur S. Bedell, D.C. '09, Secretary-Treasurer of the New York State Sewage Works Association.
The annual meeting of the Thayer Society was attended by forty-five members and eighteen invited guests of the Society. The guests included fourteen students, Mr. Hugh McLaren, Lieutenant Arthur Roth, Dean Garran and myself. Dean Bill had expected to attend as principal speaker, but was unfortunately unable to do so because of a touch of influenza. Mr. McLaren, father of Hugh McLaren Jr. '40, was a schoolboy friend of Secretary Fred Munkelt '09, and has shown very gratifying interest in the School. He lectured here last year on the estimating of construction costs, and later presented the School with a fine set of ten photographs showing the construction of the Irving Trust Company skyscraper in New York City. Lieutenant Roth is associated with Phil Coykendall '26 in the Naval Reserve Civil Engineer Corps in Washington. Fred Munkelt '09 presided at the meeting and called on Mr. McLaren, Luther S. Oakes '00, Charles R. Main '06, and John S. Macdonald '14 for a few words following the reading of reports. I was asked to describe the progress which has been made with the Business Administration and Engineering course instituted last year and offered jointly by the Tuck School and the Thayer School. Dean Garran then spoke on "The State of the School," and the evening closed with an informal discussion. F. E. Cudworth '02, A. V. Ruggles '03, F. H. Munkelt '09, P. L. Thompson '09, and J. S. Macdonald '14 were elected to the Execu- tive Committee for the coming year. C. F. Conn '89, P. H. Winchester '00, and E. H. Elkins '15 were elected to the Advisory Board.
Mr. Oakes, who was elected to the Board of Overseers last year, was combining business with pleasure on his trip from Minneapolis to attend the Thayer Society meeting and to visit a deep tunneling job which his company, Winston Brothers Company, is doing near Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
In introducing Jack Macdonald '14, Fred Munkelt spoke of the honor which was to be bestowed on Jack by the Moles, an organization of men engaged in tunnel, subway and heavy construction in the New York Area, at their February meeting. An announcement of the award, "the Moles Award of Merit for outstanding achievement in the construction field," appeared in Engineering News-Record of February 6 and is commented on elsewhere in this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Needless to say, the School is proud of Jack's outstanding accomplishments and congratulates him on this recognition.
Among those seen at the technical meetings of the Am. Soc. C.E. were Arthur Ruggles '03, Allen Richmond '15 on official duties, Richard Ellis '16, Kenneth Ross '17, Harold Lockwood, Thayer School faculty 1919-1934, John Guppy '24, Dan Frost '28, and Shaw Cole '31.
